Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred
turned, Nor Hell a fury like a woman
scorned.
Heaven helps those who help themselves.
Heaven is at the feet of mothers.
Heaven is dark and yet out of it streams
clear water.
Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a
grave.
Heaven on earth is to be found on
horseback, reading books and between a
woman's breasts.
Heaven preserve me from my friends.
Heaven protects children, sailors, and
drunken men.
Heaven was inspired by the first judge to
take a bribe.
Heavenly music is interpreted differently by
everyone.
Heavier than a mountain.
Heaviness may endure for a night, but joy
cometh in the morning.
Heavy is an old man's fall.
Heavy purses and light hearts can sustain
much.
He'd offer you an egg if you promised not to
break the shell.
He'd skin a louse, and send the hide and fat
to market.
Hedgehogs are not to be killed with the fist.
Hedges between keep friendships green.
Hedges have no eyes, but they have ears.
Heed the troubadour, burn the dinner.
Hell and Chancery are always open.
Hell and destruction are never full.
Hell and the courtroom are always open.
He'll gang mad on a horse wha's proud on a
pownie.
Hell has been broken loose.
Hell has no fury like a woman scorned.
He'll hing by the lug o't.
Hell is also made for people.
Hell is crowded with people of good
intentions.
Hell is crowded with ungrateful wretches.
Hell is full of good intentions.
Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is
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full of good works.
Hell is full of the ungrateful.
Hell is not so bad as the road that leads to it.
Hell is paved with good intentions, and
roofed with lost opportunities.
Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed
in with lost opportunities.
Hell is paved with good intentions.
Hell is populated with the victims of
harmless amusements.
Hell itself can be no worse than the road
that leads to it.
He'll laugh well that laughs longest.
He'll make an ill rinner that canna gang.
Hell must be in bad condition when even
the devil stays out.
He'll neither haud nor bind.
He'll no let grass grow at his heels.
Hell shared with a sage is better than
paradise with a fool.
He'll swear through an inch board.
He'll tell't to nae mair then he meets.
He'll wag as the bush wags.
Hello is your passport.
Hell's roof is made from lost causes.
Help a lame dog over a stile.
Help a man uphill, not at the foot of the hill.
Help by actions, not by words.
Help from abroad always comes when the
rain has stopped.
Help him who is willing to work, not him
who shrinks from it.
Help is always welcome, except at the table.
Help is good everywhere, except in the
porridge-bowl.
Help me during the flood, and I will help
you during the drought.
Help the lame dog over the stile.
Help the man climbing a hill, not the one
standing below it.
Help the needy but not the poor.
Help thy brother's boat across, and lo! thine
own has reached the shore.
Help thy self, and God will help thee.